Why Has Obama Got It In for Muslim Women?

Your name is Aisha and you are fifteen years old. You live in Dearborn, Michigan, and your parents are Muslim. So were you once, but it isn’t so easy now. When you were little, you could play with your friends from school, do cartwheels — and laugh. Then, aged nine, your life changed. Your parents made you wear the hijab. At first you didn’t mind; all girls like to dress up. But you got fed up with it; it got in the way when you wanted to do cartwheels. “It’s for your own good,” they said. “It will stop the boys looking at you in a bad way. And you shouldn’t be doing cartwheels now — it could damage you.” You didn’t know quite what they meant, and you couldn’t see why boys would want to look at you — the boys at school played with other boys. But when you asked your parents, they said again that it was for your own good.

As time went on, your parents got more strict about the hijab. By the time you were thirteen, they would hit you if you didn’t wear it — not really hard and never on the face, but hard enough. It didn’t seem fair. You looked different and sometimes it felt hot and sticky. Your classmates could wear what they liked — except Shabnum, who had to wear it too. Shabnum was cheeky, though. She would take it off during the day and put it back on to go home. One day she forgot to put it back on; you had been having such a good time after class, not doing cartwheels — that’s kids’ stuff — but talking to some boys. The next day, Shabnum was not in class and you never saw her again. Your brother Khalid said she’d been taken to Pakistan to get married. “That’s impossible — she’s only thirteen.” “That’s old enough,” said Khalid. “The prophet, peace be upon him, married Aisha when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nine.” “What’s consummated?” you asked. No answer.

By the time you were fourteen you knew what consummated meant and what happened to the other Aisha long ago, at an age when you were doing cartwheels. You didn’t think Mohammed was much of a prophet and said so to your father. He beat you black and blue — on the legs, the arms, the stomach, but not on the face. Your hijab covered the bruises, “so you won’t bring shame on the family,” your mother said. “Time she got married or there will be more trouble,” said your father. Khalid started taking you to school and back every day, so you wouldn’t talk to any boys.

Now you’re fifteen. You haven’t told your parents, but you don’t want to be a Muslim anymore. You hate wearing the hijab and would tear the damn thing up — but you’re afraid of another beating. You don’t discuss Islam with your father — the beating put a stop to that, too. Your friend Susan doesn’t know about the beating, but she says it’s wrong to make you wear the hijab. “This is America. You have rights. Women are equal here.”

When one considers how the liberal feminists would react to a case where a conservative christian family insist that their 15 year old unmarried pregnant daughter have the child instead of getting an abortion, the dichotomy is certainly alarming. But not unexpected.

All the multicultural mish-mash is about refusing to consider the ugly realities. The reality is muslims come here because they want to enjoy the benefits of the western society. They will not carry the burden of responsibility that comes with those benefits if we just let them get away with it. Their girls and their women are our guests every bit as much as their male counterparts.

If we fail to protect the muslim girls and women among us, we are failing our own principles, and multiculturalism is the worst contrived excuse for this delinquency.

The reality is that the irresponsibility that leads us to forgive the crimes of the abusive muslim males is the cover for their own. No wonder we elected a leader who puts his expedient interests ahead of everything else.

The irresponsible comments of Obama in Cairo are only the symptoms of the state of peril of our own moral standards. There is no winning the war against tyrany without winning our cultural war first. Forget about the peace in the middle east being predicated on the contrived grievances of the palestinians. This absurdity stems from our refusal to address the true realities.

Shadow: Lots of us read Obama’s speech and lots of us recognized it wasn’t much good. I am sure you thought it was more than it was, but once you strip away the inaccuracies and the trading of the west’s ideals to appease those who would like to destroy us you might have to concede it didn’t do much other than peddle some hopeychange snake oil. Bet the muslims aren’t buying it though.

But to answer Ms Jackson’s question: it isn’t Obama that hates women, it is Islam. A bunch of lil-dicks beating women and suppressing them any way they can. The women listening to Obama’s speech may have applauded but remember, in the Religion Of Peace a woman’s applause is only worth half that of a man’s.

Watch, if you dare, videos of Islamists torturing women and you’ll know where Obama gets his ideas. Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs blog site has a horrifying video of torture/port at her site today. She will release 10 of these truly sickening videos for every photo released to the ACLU of Americans “torturing” (not) enemy combatants.

18. The Shadow wrote:
Obviously that is beyond the wingnuts who read everything through the prism of wingnuttery.

Peter writes: And even more obvious is that it is beyond the ability of lefty liberal loonies to see reality, even when it strikes them square in the face.

The Won can compliment and genuflect all he wants to Islam, but it’s still going to hurt just as much when those that hate us for exactly what we are strike us again, and with the dismantling of our defenses The Won has been busy with since the day he recited his oath of office, that day is coming ever closer.

Shadow: Give it up. You are in way over your comatose head. Even the most ardent leftist can not reasonable defend the indefensible acts of inhumanity done to women/girls by Islamic fundamentalists. And if by some accidental connection of your synapses, you do then by extention you think it is okay to do it to our young women and girls. Which is truly sick.

GPC – Did you ever wonder why you are in such a small minority even among conservatives? Could it be that you believe in wingnut fairy tales? Once upon a time there was this evil badman who cast a spell over America …”

When I heard those words pour out of his mouth, I knew what it meant. It meant that those who want to practice their religion, perhaps forcefully, like the way you portray it, should be free to press their daughters into the cult of submission.

I truly believe that he has no care towards other individuals. And as for the Democrats, theirs is for the true underdog, whether it is a proxy propped up for display or anything non-white-educated-heterosexual-middle-aged-independent-male.

You really think you know it all don’t you? You do not know anything about me, yet you feel so confident as to judge that I am “in such a small minority even among conservatives”. Here’s a news flash Jackass, your opinions are just that, opinions, not facts.

GCP – Hmmnn I wonder who won the last election and why he continues to get suck a positive response in the polls while the wingnut leaders like Rush get such low numbers in the polls. Sounds like a minority to me. 8% agree with Rush about Sotomayor. GO back to your birthing fantasies

Oh, Shadow… let me illuminate your darkness. It will mean I have to slightly rearrange your comment at 26: You confuse what Obama said with what is happening in some Arab countries.

But allow me to extend it: You confuse what Obama said with what is happening in some Arab countries, and increasingly in the west.

You see, my friend, saying nice things to people sometimes isn’t enough. And saying inaccurate and foolish things often does even less good. I understand you believe that Hussein is a noble man, but equally perhaps you can begin to understand why a lot of people think he is vain, self-centered and inconsiderate of people.

And that failure to regard people properly includes women, who are at the root of this discussion here.

35. The Shadow wrote:
Hmmnn I wonder who won the last election and why he continues to get suck a positive response in the polls while the wingnut leaders like Rush get such low numbers in the polls.

Peter points out: Obama the person may be getting great poll numbers right now (likely because the biased polling groups are only asking registered Dems their opinion) but his POLICY opinions polls are sinking lower and lower by the hour. Why do you think he’s working so hard to get his dismantling of our once-grat nation through as quickly as possible, before an organized resistance can stop him from his distructive deeds.

Secondly, I’m not aware Rush is an elected offical, and as such, would be polled upon, so your point, like so much of the other drivil you post here, is pointless.

38. The Shadow wrote:
It is fine for you to believe any myth you want, but thank God the vast majority of Americans are rooted in reality and not in wingnutery.

Peter points out: Like the majority of Americans who are now against Obamacare? the majority of Americans who now do NOT want to close Gitmo? The majority of Americans who think congress as a whole should be thrown out on its useless a$$? That majority of Americans?

What’s the point of that entire spiel about the girl not wanting to wear the hijab? I wanted to wear miniskirts and belly shirts when I was in high school. I come down the stairs in the morning wearing a miniskirt belly-shirt ensemble and my dad beat my ass. Same for the Muslim girls and their hijab. I wish my kid would make a smartass crack about the religion that I practice. You can believe whatever you want but don’t ever degrade or disrespect me or my religion in my home. You are your parents property until you are an adult and the same holds true in every society/culture, including America’s. Follow the rules and respect the religion of your household until you turn 18 and then you can legally do whatever the hell you want. After you leave your parent’s household who is there to make you wear the hijab? Obama can not protect you from your father’s parenting but when you turn eighteen you don’t have to deal with it anymore.

What’s the point of that entire spiel about the girl not wanting to wear the hijab? I wanted to wear miniskirts and belly shirts when I was in high school. I come down the stairs in the morning wearing a miniskirt belly-shirt ensemble and my dad beat my ass.

The point, which should be obvious, is that you were in no danger of getting “honour killed”, or forced into “marriage” in Pakistan. If you seriously think Muslim girls and women have freedom in the West, then you are as naive as your president.

Oddly enough, I find that folks who spew spurious statistics don’t convince me of anything… likewise, if I see someone calling people names (on either side) it makes me think their positions are too weak to defend, and so are less likely to be valid.

Liberals only care about educated, powerful people like themselves. The little people, as we saw with Juanita Broderick, Paula Jones and the muslim women discussed here, are food for the dragon. By this I mean the movie dragon slayer from disney from many years ago. The people in this kingdom fed their virgin daughters to the dragon to keep themselves safe. Liberals feed their weaker members to the modern dragons, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, the muslim terrorists, to keep themselves in power and safe.